Chapter 4864: THE Prima Indifferentia IV
Chapter 4864: THE Prima Indifferentia IV
Being carried across THE Prima Indifferentia without being able to move was horrible, but manageable.
Noah had been working with the situation, allowing his infinities to spread through his existence while the proto-matter storms transported him to wherever they wished. He’d been adapting, evolving, becoming something more than he had been when he first entered through the Crack!
But...
Being swept across the storm as a monstrous thing appeared and swallowed him whole...
This was not manageable.
Darkness surrounded him instantly, but it wasn’t the darkness of absence. It was the darkness of presence, the weight of something so fundamentally undefined that light itself couldn’t exist within it. He felt the walls of this stomach pressing against his existence from every direction, and he felt them beginning to work.
|Critical Alert|
|You have been devoured by THE Undivided One, Bazuman|
|THE Undivided Ones are arguably the most dangerous entities in THE Prima Indifferentia|
|They are beings that existed before existence differentiated but who refused to differentiate with it|
|They remain in their original state: undivided, undefined, and partiallyunlimited|
|They cannot be fought because fighting requires the fighter and the fought to be separate things|
|They cannot be reasoned with because reasoning requires distinct concepts to compare|
|They cannot be avoided because avoidance requires a distinction between presence and absence|
|Bazuman has consumed an unknown number of Absolutes across the eons|
|None of them escaped|
|None of them survived|
|Your current Depth is insufficient to resist digestion|
|Estimated time until complete undifferentiation: decreasing|
...!
When it rained, it poured.
In addition to the proto-matter continuing to flood into him from the storms he’d been carried through, Noah now felt a different force pressing down all around him. The digestive pressure of THE Undivided One, Bazuman, was unbelievably heavy, exceeding even the force that he had felt from THE Hollow Echo of THE Creature in The Interstices.
In an instant, Noah saw his arms and legs beginning to unravel.
Inside the stomach of this creature, his weight and Immensity was being unmade and undifferentiated in a manner that far exceeded what the proto-matter had been doing on its own. His fingers blurred at the edges. His wings lost their definition. His crown of burning pages flickered as the Phonemes contained within them began to forget what they were supposed to mean.
But...
Noah felt the unprecedented danger and situation around him as the change that had been spurred by proto-matter still remained within his foundations. He felt all his Ways as they burned with Infinities. His Organ of Civilization burned with infinity. THE Grimoire of Infinite Lexicons burned with infinity. His entire existence burned with Infinity in ways that he hadn’t fully understood until this very moment.
The perilous enemy he faced could easily undifferentiate even Absolutes, and Noah’s Depth couldn’t compare to such beings.
Not even close.
But he didn’t only have his Depth.
In such a perilous moment as his arms and legs unraveled further, as his existence threatened to dissolve into the stomach of something that had never failed to digest its prey, Noah actually closed his eyes and felt the beat of his heart.
It was...
DUM DUM DUM...
It beat repetitively and infinitely, because the influx of proto-matter seeking to undifferentiate him had instead bathed his heart in infinity when it couldn’t undifferentiate what was already beyond definition.
In order to fight an enemy he couldn’t win against through conventional means, he called out lightly.
"Beat loudly."
HUUM!
His heart responded, and the infinity within it flared brighter.
"Beat tyrannically."
WAA!
His heart thundered, and the infinities spread through his existence began to pulse in rhythm with it.
"Beat... infinitely."
...!
BOOM!
An instant later, Noah’s unraveling limbs reformed.
But they didn’t reform as flesh and blood and the normal composition of his existence. They reformed as pure blue-gold infinities given physical shape, light that had no perceivable end taking the form of arms and legs and wings that spread wide with authority that transcended Depth entirely!
He didn’t call upon his Depth.
He didn’t need to.
He released his Infinities that couldn’t be undifferentiated into the belly of a creature that had always succeeded in undifferentiating everything it had ever consumed.
From Noah’s body, a flicker of infinity bloomed.
And this flicker groaned and boomed as if it were an unfathomable beast waking up from slumber that had lasted since before time existed. It asserted itself with weight that had nothing to do with Foundation or Civilization or Way, a weight that simply was because infinity simply was.
How dare you try to undifferentiate what cannot be undifferentiated?
The question wasn’t spoken aloud, but it echoed through the stomach of Bazuman with force that made the walls of undifferentiation tremble for the first time in their existence.
With such a regal and grand resonance, the glimmer of blue-gold infinity erupted outward like a blade.
It carved through the stomach of something that had never been carved before.
It cut through undifferentiation itself, forcing the definition of infinity into a space that had rejected definition since before THE Infinite Unfurling.
And it kept cutting until it reached the outside.
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In a region surrounded by pillars of proto-matter, the visage of Bazuman paused.
The massive horror that had been so eager to consume THE First Tongue went still, its million crimson eyes blinking in unison as something unprecedented occurred within its form. It had swallowed its prey. It had begun digesting. The process had always worked before.
Why wasn’t it working now?
A cut appeared on its body.
A line of blue-gold light that should not have been possible, a wound inflicted by something that had no business being able to wound THE Undivided.
And from that cut, a blue-gold light of a man shot out.
Noah’s figure emerged from the belly of the beast, his existence burning with infinities that painted the proto-matter around him in shades that THE Prima Indifferentia had never seen before!
He was still learning how to use this brilliance, still understanding what had changed within him and how to direct it, but he understood enough.
He floated before Bazuman, his blue-gold form facing the horror of a million crimson eyes and jagged jaws, and he spoke calmly.
"I... am not food."
...!
An immense silence settled across this region of THE Prima Indifferentia alongside heavy unease that even the proto-matter seemed to feel. Bazuman’s countless eyes focused on the being before it, studying something that had escaped its stomach for the first time in its existence.
And within Noah, prompts bloomed.
|Existential Transformation Detected|
|Your Formless Depth burns with infinities|
|All aspects of your existence have become more aligned with the central weaving of your being|
|The Derivative Civilization of Hunger has been bathed in Infinity|
|The Derivative Civilization of Undifferentiated Fate has been bathed in Infinity|
|Your Way burns with Infinity|
|Your Foundation burns with Infinity|
|You have produced your first Infinite Everything|
|Not an Absolute Everything|
|An Infinite Everything|
...!